Yesterday I wrote an article on TechCult titled 5 Sickening Habits of Mainstream Websites, and it looks like it struck a nerve on people. Judging from the reaction in the comments (over 100 in a matter of 10 hours), most web surfers get annoyed with those habits too.
They are:
- Breaking stories in many different pages to increase the number of impressions
- Using splash pages with ads
- Not linking to the sources or mentioned websites
- Using pop-up ads
- Requiring registration to access the content
Notice that I do walk my talk when it comes to not using those things. A while ago in fact I wrote the 150 Best Online Flash Games, and I’ve put all the 150 items on a single page. I certainly could have broken that list on 6 pages with 25 items each and generated 6 times more page views, but I didn’t, because I gave priority to the user experience.
Anyway just check the full article if you have time, I am sure you will like it. And subscribe to TechCult too, else you would be missing all that cool content!
About Mark Felix
Mark is an digital entrepreneur from New York City who recently acquired DBT. He started his ventures buying growing then selling several businesses and content blogs on Flippa. A perfect night for him constitutes pizza, wine, slow jazz and WordPress! He's an SEO expert and a growth strategist. When he's not working on his businesses he enjoys sharing his learned lessons with the DBT community.
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